This guide provides links to social media sites of interest to scientists, such as photo-, video-, poster-, slide-, and figure-sharing sites. It also provides listings of data visualization resources, image libraries, video archives, and resource portals focusing on the biological and biomedical sciences. Also included in this guide is a page listing life sciences image competitions, journal cover submission guidelines, and cover image archives.
Lastly, on the Other Image/Video Resources page, this guide includes listings of more general social media sites, image databases and search engines that are used by scientists in their professional, as well as personal, lives.
This guide does not cover copyright issues relating to images and videos. For guidance on such issues, consult the following resources:
Copyright - United States Copyright Office
Frequently Asked Questions - Creative Commons
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Finding and Using Images from the Web - TechSoup
